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Juliana Francis

JULIANA FRANCIS  

 Nationality:    USA
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Juliana Francis is a playwright, an OBIE and Dramalogue award winning actress, and a doll maker. She has acted for many great avant garde directors in the US, Europe and asia, including Reza abdoh, Richard Foreman, anne Bogart, Dalia Ibelhauptaite, Hal Hartley, Young Jean Lee and Pavol LiskA. after the untimely death of her mentor, Mr. abdoh, Ms. Francis began writing plays. Her plays have been produced and published in New York, London (at The Institute for Contemporary arts), Graz, Oslo, Rome, athens, and Kiel. She has received project support from the NEa, NYSCa, The Jerome Foundation, Sundance Screenwriting Lab, chashama and TCG, and is currently writing ECSTaTIC STaTES, a play inspired by 1872 presidential candidate and spiritualist Victoria Woodhull, for the award-winning Foundry Theatre. Ms. Francis has also written a screenplay adaptation of her play, SaINT LaTRICE, for Christine Vachon's Killer Films Company.

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below is a list of Juliana Francis's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Baddest Natashas, The         Box         Death Might Be Your Santa Claus         Go Go Go         Saint Latrice

Baddest Natashas, The

Synopsis:
Two Victorian-era "boxing prostitutes", two desperate Ukranian ladies, one unstable actress, and one mysterious French redhead all crash into each other.

Notes:
Written by Tony Tom And Juliana Francis

1st Produced:
Ontological-Hysteric Theater    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Open City Magazine,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Box

Synopsis:
anastasia is very good at her job in the peep show

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Women's Project and Productions    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Smith & Kraus,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
nine-minute long three-act musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Death Might Be Your Santa Claus

Synopsis:
Inspired by an article in The New Yorker titled 'God Doesn't Need Ole anthony', Death Might Be Your Santa Claus explores the intersection of faith and capitalism in American today. The show centers around Ole anthony, a 68-year-old man in Dallas who leads a group of former homeless and addicts in an undercover spy operation to expose televangelistic fraud. Other source material includes the faith-based merchandise department at Wal-Mart, testimonies of lightning victims, the oncology ward, Internet prayer circles, 1940s musicals, and Tammy Faye

Notes:
conceived by Lear deBessonet with Additional text by Juliana Francis

1st Produced:
15 Nassau Street, NY    2006

Organisations:
Stillpoint Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
site-specific work

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Go Go Go

Synopsis:
an adaptation of Ovid's Myth Of Erysichthon

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Cultegest, Lisbon    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
published in the U.S. by Theater Forum and in Europe by T3,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Multi-media

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Saint Latrice

Synopsis:
Latrice is a 13-year-old food demonstrator at River Mall with a 40-year-old carpet salesman boyfriend named Bob and a secret life involving a trio of divine girl pop stars. When things with Bob go horribly wrong, Latrice's stars step in and save the day. Maybe.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
PS 122; Theater Graz (in German)    2002

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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